signed and dated 'D. Lyon 1762' (lower left)



David Lyon (fl. 1758-1774) was a sporting artist in the circle of James Seymour (1702-1752) and was possibly one of his pupils. Lyon is listed in Sporting art in eighteenth-century England: a social and political history by Stephen Deuchar (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1988) in his list of eighteenth-century sporting painters in England. Lyon is also listed as exhibiting two works at the Free Society of Artists in 1774, when he was residing at a Capt. Scott's, Tottenham Court Road, London.



This work is after a series of hunting paintings with similar compositions by Seymour. These include a painting dated 1746 in the Dick Collection sale by Sotheby’s in 1976, a painting that sold at Christie’s in 2006, one that sold at Bonhams in 2011 dated 1750, another that sold at Christie’s in 2010 dated 1750, and an engraving after Seymour dated 1757 by Pierre Charles Canot and titled Brushing into Cover.